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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?